An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo (59 page)

19
. J. B. Priestley, ‘Taking The Lid Off’,
Twentieth Century
, 170 (Spring 1962), p. 32.

20
. Hugh Cudlipp,
At Your Peril
(1962), pp. 25, 31, 47; Hugh Trevor-Roper,
Letters from Oxford
(2006), pp. 125–26.

21
. Denis Thomas, ‘The Paper with the Mostest’,
Truth
, 8 February 1957, 157, pp. 148–49.

22
. Catterall,
Macmillan Diaries
,
I
, pp. 396, 563, and
II
, p. 70.

23
. Hugh Cudlipp,
Publish and Be Damned!
(1953), pp. 282–283; Cudlipp,
At Your Peril
, p. 25.

24
. Ruth Dudley Edwards,
Newspapermen
(2003), p. 44; King, ‘Morality of Popular Press’, p. 100; Cecil King, ‘The Dangers when Sex is Mistaken for Love’,
The Times
, 12 April 1969, p. 9e.

25
. Edwards,
Newspapermen
, pp. 138, 141.

26
. Edwards,
Newspapermen
, pp. 107, 284, 285–6, 320–1.

27
. Edwards,
Newspapermen
, p. 132.

28
. Charles Wilberforce [Cudlipp’s pseudonym], ‘The NEW Woman!’,
Sunday Pictorial,
12 March 1939, p. 7.

29
. ‘Hugh Cudlipp – Journalist Tycoon’,
Observer
, 18 June 1961, p. 9.

30
. Edwards,
Newspapermen
, p. 312.

31
. Pertinax, ‘Fit for a King’,
Time & Tide
, 20 January 1961, p. 92.

32
. Cudlipp,
At Your Peril
, p. 314.

33
. Wilfred Fienburgh, ‘The Politics of Welfare’,
Twentieth Century¸
Vol. 158 (July 1955), pp. 20–21.

34
. Janet Morgan,
The Backbench Diaries of Richard Crossman
(1981), p. 714; Cudlipp,
At Your Peril
, pp. 120–22; Cecil King, ‘The Morality of the Popular Press’,
Twentieth Century
, 171 (Spring 1963), pp. 98–9.

35
. Cudlipp,
At Your Peril
, pp. 113, 116.

36
. King, ‘Morality of Popular Press’, p. 102; Philip Purser, ‘Viewers, Voyeurs and Victims’,
Twentieth Century
, 170 (Spring 1962), p. 76.

37
. Sir Brian Harrison,
Seeking a Role
(2009), p. 462.

38
. Penelope Fitzgerald,
Human Voices
(1980), chapter 2 (p. 163 of Everyman edition, 2003); Henry Fairlie, ‘The BBC’,
Encounter
, 13 (August 1959), p. 8.

39
. Wilfred Greatorex, ‘Television’,
Twentieth Century
, 173 (Spring 1965), pp. 85–6.

40
. Malcolm Bradbury, ‘The New Language of Morals’,
Twentieth Century
, 172 (Summer 1963), p. 81; Pat Williams, ‘Enemies of the Imagination’,
Twentieth Century
, 171 (Spring 1963), pp. 81–2; Michael Frayn, ‘More About Comedy’,
Twentieth Century
, 169 (Autumn 1961), p. 182.

41
. Connolly, ‘Gale-Swept Chip’, p. 95; Purser, ‘Viewers, Voyeurs and Victims’, p. 79.

Eight: Spies

1
.
Lord Dacre of Glanton to Sir Isaiah Berlin, 9 October 1981, Dacre papers 1/31/1; Adam Sisman,
Hugh Trevor-Roper
(2010), p. 464; Sir Michael Howard, ‘Cowboys, Playboys and Other Spies’,
New York Times
, 16 February 1986.

2
. Information from Nicolas Barker, 21 December 2011.

3
. Rebecca West,
The Meaning of Treason
(1982), p. 293; B2A minute, 13 May 1952, and Lambert Titchener to G.A. Carey-Foster, 9 May 1952, NA KV 2/1636.

4
. Rebecca West, ‘Annals of Treason’,
New Yorker
, 14 February 1953, p. 37.

5
. Marshall’s statement to Special Branch, 13 June 1952, f 36, NA KV 2/1638; B2A report, ‘The Case of William Martin Marshall’, 19 June 1952, NA KV 2/1639.

6
. Howard Johnson, ‘Downfall of a Dupe’,
Daily Mirror
, 11 July 1952; ‘Our Son’,
Reynolds News
, 13 July 1952.

7
. W. J. Skardon, report: ‘William Martin Marshall: Interview at Wormwood Scrubs on 19.2.53’, 24 February 1953, NA KV 2/1641.

8
. Harold Elvin,
A Cockney in Moscow
(1958); West,
Meaning of Treason
, pp. 293–302.

9
. B2A, ‘Note for file’, 24 July 1952 [interview with Anthony Hibberson], NA KV 2/1639.

10
. ‘The Squalid Truth’,
Sunday Pictorial
, 25 September 1955, p. 1; Cudlipp,
At Your Peril
, p. 317.

11
. ‘Who is Hiding the Man Who Tipped Off These Sex Perverts?’,
Sunday Pictorial
, 25 September 1955, p. 1; Rawlinson,
Price Too High
, p. 37; Horne,
But What Do You Actually Do?
, p. 55.

12
. George Brown, ‘FO Flops: Spies are Not the Only Trouble’,
Sunday Pictorial
, 25 September 1955, p. 11; Catterall,
Macmillan Diaries
,
II
, pp. 450–51; Macmillan diary, 16 February 1962, dep d 45, f 23.

13
. Lord Astor, House of Lords debates, 22 November 1955, 194, cols 708–15.

14
. Catterall,
Macmillan Diaries
,
I
, pp. 452, 456; Richard Aldous,
Macmillan, Eisenhower and the Cold War
(2005), p. 57; Malcolm Muggeridge, ‘England, Whose England?’,
Encounter
, 21 (July 1963), pp. 14–15.

15
. Honor Balfour, ‘Paris and After’,
National Review
, 154 (June 1960), pp. 209, 211–12.

16
. Sir Harold Evans,
Downing Street Diary
(1983), p. 113; Horne,
Macmillan
,
II
, p. 231; Aldous,
Macmillan, Eisenhower
, p. 163.

17
. Geoffrey Stone, ‘Conventions’,
Twentieth Century
, 169 (January 1961), p. 13.

18
. Rawlinson,
Price Too High
, p. 88; Sir Theobald Mathew, undated memorandum, CHP/7, NA HO 345/7.

19
. Marcus Cunliffe, ‘The Comforts of the Sick-Bay’,
Encounter
, 21 (July 1963), p. 98.

20
. John Vassall,
Vassall, the Autobiography of a Spy
(1975), p. 21; West,
Meaning of Treason
, pp. 361–62.

21
. Vassall,
Vassall
, p. 39.

22
. Vassall,
Vassall
, pp. 37–8, 53, 55–6, 62–3, 91.

23
. West,
Meaning of Treason
, pp. 367–68.

24
. Catterall,
Macmillan Diaries
,
II
, p. 501.

25
. Brendan Mulholland, ‘Courier’,
Daily Mail
, 23 October 1962; Radcliffe report, para 222.

26
. Arthur Christiansen to Lord Beaverbrook, 10 November 1955, HLRO BBk H/177.

27
. John Vassall, ‘42 Faces of the Spy Who Bares His Soul’,
Sunday Pictorial
, 28 October 1962, pp. 9–10.

28
. John Deane Potter, ‘Twilight Traitors’,
News of the World
, 28 October 1962, p. 15.

29
. William Shepherd, House of Commons debates, 26 November 1958, 596, cols 425–30; Knightley and Kennedy,
Affair of State
, pp. 114–16.

30
. George Brown, House of Commons debates, 5 November 1962, 666, col 714
;
Morgan,
Crossman
Backbench Diaries
, p. 991; Sir Maurice Bowra,
New Bats in Old Belfries
(2005), p. 150; Lord Montagu of Beaulieu,
Wheels within Wheels
(2000), p. 131.

31
. Stephen Robinson,
The Remarkable Lives of Bill Deedes
(2008), pp. 218, 265.

32
. ‘A Whitehall Farce’,
Guardian
, 8 November 1962, p. 8; Percy Hoskins, ‘Don’t forget they knew for 18 months there was a spy around’,
Daily Express
, 8 November 1962, p. 5; Evans,
Downing Street Diary
, p. 55; Carrington,
Reflect on Things Past
, pp. 173–75.

33
. House of Commons debates, 14 November 1962, 667: Harold Macmillan, col 401, Nigel Birch, cols 411–15, Michael Foot, col 480; Publius, ‘Where Was Lord Carrington’s Smile?’,
Time & Tide
, 43 (22–29 November 1962), p. 4.

34
. Evans,
Downing Street Diary
, p. 229; Catterall,
Macmillan Diaries
,
II
, pp. 518–19; Macmillan diary, 15 November 1962, dep d 47, ff 101–02.

35
. Radcliffe report, paragraphs 63, 66; Lionel Crane, ‘How To Spot a Potential Homo’,
Sunday Mirror
, 28 April 1963, p. 7; Ken Livingstone,
You Can’t Say That
(2011), pp. 104–05.

36
. Paul Johnson, ‘London Diary’,
New Statesman
, 22 March 1963, p. 417.